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Articles: Data Protection

In the movie “Other People’s Money”, Danny DeVito’s character declares: “You know, at one time there must’ve been dozens of companies makin’ buggy whips. And I’ll bet the last company around was the one that made the best damn buggy whip you ever saw.” Once the de facto standard for backup storage, Purpose Built Backup…

In our recent RecoverX 2.5 launch, we introduced a host of exciting new capabilities designed specifically for MongoDB including Data Center Aware Backup for MongoDB. Data Center Aware Backup enables backing up geo-distributed MongoDB sharded database clusters at any of the geo-distributed sites and restoring at any of the sites. RecoverX can backup an entire…

Modern applications built on non-relational databases like Cassandra and MongoDB and Big Data filesystems like Cloudera and HortonWorks are here to stay, increasing in popularity and rate of adoption (running in the cloud or on-premises) within enterprises everywhere. In response, traditional backup vendors, including Commvault, are rushing to market with solutions that purport to provide…

As enterprise customers across industry verticals accelerate their digital transformation journeys, they are aggressively developing new modern customer-centric applications and deploying these on next generation distributed data platforms such as MongoDB, DataStax, Cassandra, Couchbase, Apache Hadoop, Amazon DynamoDB, Google BigTable. As a result, , security is becoming an increasing concern. There have been several large…

To keep up with business demands and to innovate with customer-centric applications, IT teams are always looking for modern tools that provide increased developer agility, and increased productivity of DBA and infrastructure teams — all while maintaining highest order of data recoverability. From the first day of Datos IO and with the release of RecoverX…

One of the biggest requirements for businesses is to provide always-on, 100% available customer-centric experience. May that be for your favorite eCommerce platforms/websites, banking platforms, retail platforms, social media platforms, or even product development / content management applications. As a result, the challenge for IT organizations to be able to meet this always-on business requirement…

Today, we’re excited to announce the release of Datos IO RecoverX 2.5, our 4th major release marking a significant milestone on our journey of disrupting the $10B data management software market that is rapidly moving to the cloud. In this series of blogs we’ll discuss the fundamental changes occurring in the IT stack, the resulting…

Another day on the road, another event in the books. It’s been a whirlwind couple of weeks including engaging with DBA’s at Oracle OpenWorld (OOW), storage and backup administrators at NetApp Insight, and now this week talking with app admins, DBA’s, and app architects at Connect | SV, Couchbase’s annual conference in San Jose. In…

With rapid market adoption of modern applications built on next generation scale out, distributed NoSQL and big data data platforms traditional backup vendors are increasingly focused on these new workloads – at least from a messaging and roadmap standpoint. While traditional vendors help increase customer awareness of the critical need for backup of modern data…